Kind of reminiscent of an H G Wells book, touching on the realms of possibility. 5.0 out of 5 stars enjoyed the film as a 'b-movie' Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2015. THE MANGLER THE MANGLER Officer Hunton got to the laundry just ag the ambulance was leaving - slowly, with no siren or flashing lights. This is definitely an early thought process that would ultimately breed one of King’s most famous stories ‘Christine’ the idea of an inanimate object holding so much terror is not one that really tickles my fancy. For its film adaptation, see, "Acceptance Speech, Stephen King, Recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS AWARD", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Mangler&oldid=972248112, Works originally published in Cavalier (magazine), Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 August 2020, at 01:55. Inside, the office was stuffed with milling, silent people, some of them weeping. Haunted laundry press.

When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. The Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories, 1982. Refresh and try again.

It was originally published in the December 1972 issue of Cavalier, and was later included in King's own 1978 collection Night Shift. Cavalier, Dec 1972. I have never heard of this one but was very pleased to have spotted in and quickly located it on my computer. Be the first to ask a question about The Mangler. What do you want me to say?????

The Mangler, in Gartley's Blue Ribbon Laundry service, is a laundry press owned by Bill Gartley (Englund). Start by marking “The Mangler” as Want to Read: Error rating book. But you can't help but kind of enjoy it. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Welcome back. Is this laundry machine haunted? It is a fairy tale grimmer than Grimm, ret… More The Mangler " is a short story written by Stephen King. Meh.

Though entertaining, the idea of performing an exorcism on a laundry machine is a bit ridiculous.

It creeped me out. Same as with, There's a Family Guy joke about Stephen King sitting in an office, pitching his next book to his publisher. A police detective investigating a sudden rash of grisly deaths caused by an industrial laundry press, called a mangle, discovers that a series of unfortunate coincidences involving the machine have inadvertently replicated a demon-summoning ritual. It made Hunton very wary. The Mangler. " To be honest, it was silly and at times clumsily done. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. I'd personally vote for the man to be President, so I'm a trifle forgiving. "The Mangler" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the December 1972 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.

This was a very short story.

Later, Mrs. Frawley, an elderly worker, struggling to open … This story is decent but it’s not great. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. Posteriorly included in the 1980 anthologies The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories, in 1980, Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories, in 1982, and Demons, in 1987. The story ends after the detective and his friend underestimate the demon's power; and in seeking to exorcise the machine, they instead goad it into ripping free of its moorings and prowling the streets in search of fresh prey. Very creepy and uncanny.

[the idea of a metal Eldritch horror coming after me is pretty fucking horrifying tho. "September 11, 2017 – page 70 "Little over played!". Verified Purchase. I still remember the feeling when I read this 20 years ago.



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